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Steinbeck wrote about homeless camps being destroyed under pretense of "disease can spread in those, we're so concerned about the poors."
They can spend millions on contractors to create surveillance software but its Communism if you build affordable/free housing and give people free healthcare. Utterly bizarre SV government logic. Don't worry bro, tech will fix it.
I think a lot of liberals are so utterly domesticated by capitalism that they instinctually see any suggestion to improve society somewhat as dangerous.
Nazis told prisoners in concentration camps that gas chambers were for disinfection.